Sal Castaneda, 46, and Daragh Adamson, 36, met at the then-Pac Bell Park in 2000, when the Giants first got their new downtown digs. Daragh, who was working as an EMT at the park, spotted Castaneda, the radio and TV reporter who'd she listened to since high school. They dated for three years and married three months ago. They're seen here in their home in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, August 2, 2010.

Daragh, then working as an emergency medical technician at the park, spotted a friendly face ... was it really Sal Castaneda, the radio and TV reporter whom she'd listened to since high school? In the crush of humanity exiting the game, the two locked eyes.

Sal turned to smile one last time before disappearing into the crowd. He's cute in real life, thought Daragh.

Several months later, when her best friend took a job at Sal's station, the friend reminded him of a raven-haired EMT who worked Giants games. Did he remember seeing her? Totally.

Hooked up by e-mail, the three planned a drink. But busy schedules intervened. "I was young and couldn't imagine we'd have much in common," Daragh says. Though she regretted missing the meet-up, she dreaded the thought of simply being one of Sal's adoring fans.

Over the years, while both dated, neither let the other completely slip off the radar. It was 2007 when Sal saw that Daragh's status on a social networking site had been changed to "single." Single himself then, he suggested they get that drink they'd been talking about for seven years.

"I was happy being a bachelor," Sal says. But with Daragh, there was an immediate ease. Within months he let slip the weighty "I love you" - a surprise. "With Daragh, I never felt I was facing a deadline - to marry, or be anyone except who I am," Sal says.

"And I never had to guess where I stood," adds Daragh, now director of an egg donor program at a fertility clinic. "Sal made it clear that he liked me and wanted to spend lots of time together."

Thankfully and surprisingly, the two found lots in common. Both are newshounds, and are smitten by the city's neighborhoods. And both value time with family. Sal's large El Salvadoran brood felt familiar to Daragh, whose family background spans at least three continents. They soon became each other's biggest fans.

Within the year, Daragh had moved into Sal's house in the outer Mission, the childhood home in which he grew up.

Sal intimated intentions of forever from early on, but Daragh cautioned: "Don't talk marriage if there's no ring to back you up!" In 2008, on Twin Peaks, ring in hand, he proposed. In May, they married.

"Having a normal relationship outside the public eye is important to me," Sal says, reaching for one of his wife's freshly baked cookies.

"Sal is exactly the same person he is on TV," Daragh says. She feels as if she's known her new husband for decades, she says, "only better."

On that random sighting so long ago:

Daragh: "I used to joke that I missed the chance to meet my husband ... but in the end, I guess didn't."